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Dying to use this on Google Cloud SQL but they just won't support the extension. There's an issue with upvotes to add support but still no official response as to whether support is coming... extremely frustrating

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Although even if Google were to add support for TimescaleDB, it would only be for the Apache-2 version of the database, which lacks many of its key features (compression, continuous aggregates, multi-node scale out, data retention policies, job scheduling framework, various analytical functions, etc.)

See this HN discussion about Timescale's "cloud protection" licensing [0].

Of course, Timescale Cloud is available across 20+ GCP regions =)

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24579905

It all looks amazing and I want it but am personally quite weak at Database administration. I think I'll have to wait until there's a guide which allows me to migrate from a 9.6 Cloud SQL instance to TimescaleDB Cloud without any downtime. I'm doing a quick google for "Cloud SQL migrate to Timescale". There's a guide from Google themselves but it's not without downtime.

I read that you can't easily migrate 9.6 to another version of PG via streaming replication until 10 :(

Curious why not use Timescale Cloud?

Azure support Timescale in their PasS - https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/power-iot-and-time-se...

While true, this is only the Apache-2 version. See @mfreed's response below for links and more detail.

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